Kaifi Azmi – Biography
Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi (January 14, 1919 — May 10, 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He was considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Kaifi Azmi was married to Shaukhat Azmi.…
Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi (January 14, 1919 — May 10, 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He was considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Kaifi Azmi was married to Shaukhat Azmi.…
कैफ़ी आज़मी मेरे समकालीन थे. उसी तरह जैसे उम्र के फ़र्क के बावजूद वह अपने सीनियर शायर जोश मलीहाबादी, रघुपति सहाय फ़िराक़ और जिगर मुरादाबादी के समकालीन थे. वह इन बुज़ुर्गों के ज़माने के नौजवान शायर थे. सन् 35-36 में…
Lyrics – Kaifi Azmi Music Video Directed by – Baba Azmi Music and Voice – Roop Kumar Rathod
Kar chale ham fida jaan-o-tan saathiyo Ab tumhare hawale watan saathiyo (Consecrating our lives to our land, we leave (for war), our land is now in your care, friends…). There could be no greater tribute to offer than to quote…
As a website devoted to poet-lyricist extraordinaire Kaifi Azmi was unveiled, his daughter, actor-activist Shabana Azmi, spoke to Yogesh Pawar about his life and work and their impact on her. How did the idea for a website come about? What…
Q. What drove you to choose the profession you are in? What would you attribute your success to? Ans. It was predestined in a way. My mother Shaukat Kaifi who is a very respected Theatre artist was working with Prithvi…
In the foreword to ‘Maha Prastavana’ by the famous Telegu poet Sri Sri, the famous Telegu humourist Chilam had said that Krishna Shastri is a poet who gives all his pains to the world, and Sri Sri makes the sorrows…
As young people Shaukat and Kaifi fall desperately in love with each other but are soon parted. For Shaukat’s family, a card-holding communist, a poet with no source of income, is hardly the kind of person their daughter should be…
Ali Sardar Jafri being already involved with PWA, introduced Kaifi to Sajjad Zaheer and other stalwarts of PWA and they become de facto official poets of Leftist Movement in India, along with Sahir Ludhiyanvi .
Kaifi Azmi loved his wife passionately. He wrote her many romantic shers, even sent her letters written in blood that she still treasures.
The kind of audience Kaifi Aur Main appeals to are romantics, fans of my father’s songs, of his poetry. All these are integral to the language the book was written in. It wouldn’t be fair to bring it back in…
Dear Shabana, The new website for your father, I call it new because it is different from before, is absolutely fantastic. It’s rare I almost becomes speechless, words like respect, fantastic, amazing, etc. does not cover the feelings I have…
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 1998 by Yogesh Pawar You mention `socialism’ and his gnarled face lights up. “It can never die,” says the octogenarian poet, Kaifi Azmi, on whom the Maharashtra government has decided to confer the Dnyaneshwar award, this year.…
Great authors have immense compassion in their hearts, sometimes far more than what they share or reveal through their writings. Even in severe adversity, they never turn bitter, instead exhibit a profound capacity to understand ‘conflicts’ which help lay bare…
I look out of the window from Abba’s room. The first showers of the monsoon have freshly bathed the trees. The sky is blue, the grass green, the gulmohar resplendent in full bloom. I turn back to look inside the…
Shabana has just returned from Mijwan full of excitement at the rapid steps of progress Mijwan has taken ….. Namrata Goyal, the 20 year old daughter of Jet Airways owners Naresh and Neeta Goyal has now taken over as President…
He was always different, a fact that didn’t sit too easily on my young shoulders. He didn’t go to ‘office’ or wear the normal trousers and shirt like other ‘respectable’ fathers but chose to wear a white cotton kurta-pyjama 24…